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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-02
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-02

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-02

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I The Canadian Pacific railway crosses
through it from cast to west, running
from the Atlantic to the Pacific; snd rail.
roads from the United States come from
the south, opening this country. up to the
world in that direction. Companies are
now at work building n railroad to rnl.
from here TO Hudson Bay, giving still an.
other outlet. .!i} Il e lr 81
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4AC tvuASl 40 Al LApbJ Whyo
from what had thought to find it. 4 I had
no idea that Iswould lird such a city rs
this in the wilderness. l was expecting
to find 3 few tents and !wigwams, and was
in doubt as to whether. l could find a
place to stay over night. But, l. am to.
aight in q city. nearly as large as Wheel.
ing, but far inferior in buildinge and
wealth. Many Of the houses arc missrA.,
bic, and the streets are fearlully muddy.
The hotel where l stop is four stories high,
lighted with gas, with electric bells, car
peted with Brussels, and would be credit
to any town. The people are mixture Of
Englinh, French, Americans and Indiana.
They are not hostile to the United States,
and seem to want railroads to the States,
thinking commerce that way better than
with England. Wheat !. here is $50 a
bushel, oats Acc, and barley Soc. The rate
Of boarding ia much lower than in most
parts Of the United States. The. country
is well supplied with cattle, but not many
fine horses. I saw oxen harnesaed like
horses, drsgging wagons and carts through
tho streets Of Winnipeg. &; a,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
Col. Bob rs q Samaritan.

Ingersoll which, if it reaches the ears of
st. Peter, may improve the Colonel's
standing with that gentleman. Some
time ago an Old Illinois soldier made APP
plication for a pension on account OF lung
trouble which he had contracted during
his service in the army. During the
was struck with the peculiar exactness
with which the applicant recalled the
very day upon which he caught the cold
from the effects OF which his trouble was
claimed to have originated.
allow is it," asked he ''that you are so
sure that you caught cold on February
q. 1862 You must have an excellent
memory to recollect such an insignificant
event for so long time"
81 remember it from the fact that Col.
Bob lngersoll was married on the follow
ing day."
"Why, what has that to do with it."
asked the p -nslon-eXar1iner, astonished.
"Well, was in the Colonel's regiment,
and on the night OF that day | was ON
guard duty. 1t was a bitterly cold night.
Colonel lngersoll happened to stroll
along by me, and | said to him that if h /,
did not either send me warm overcoat,
bottle OF whiskey, or relieve me from
guard duty, Id freeze TO death"
"I'll do all three, said the Colonel
and suiting the action to the word, he
took Oh Il nne lur oyercoat he was wear
ing and handed it to me. Then he took
from one o. mis- pockets,a "a flask OF splendid
old rye, whicl he also gave me. CON
tent with tlis, he actually wen tC
headquarters and wrote out an OF 4 cal
cold Tor guard duty. This is why hap
pen to have such vivid recollection o
the Colonels marriage and the contrac
ton oil my cold"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02

The smoke nuisance on the street cars,
though the most annoying, is by 40
means the only one to be founl on that
popular vehicle Another one is the
p ssenGer who persists in crossing his
legs 50 that one OF his feet projects across
the passag. way through the car. lie is
most invariably "long-geared" pas
scnger with feet to correspond; and he
is sure to become absorbed in book or
paper as soon as he has etiectually blocked
the way. Timid passengers must there
after climb over him; but even when an
aggressive one knocks against him he
rarely takes the hint. He does have the
grace sometimes, ii he is apprised that
laiy is stopped by the barrier he has
erected, to remove it but he promptly
puts it up again when the lady has
passed.
A somewhat similar nuisance is the
passenger always a male one-who
occIpies two or three seats by sitting
sidewise so as to gaze from the ca win
dow. II is very common to see one of
these selfish nuisances, absorbed in con-
temptation OF the stores or the scenery,
keep one or two passengers stanuing for
an entire trip.
Still another nuisance is the conductor
who always wants to lend hand"
Whenever a passenger gets on he I'M
medately puts hand between a pas
sengers shoulder blades and helps him
or her up and in to the car. ltmIkes no
material difference 10 him whether the
passenger is old or young, sprghtly or
lie bic, man or woman, though he does
seen to have preferencr-when the
weather is warm and his han IS are moist
-lor ladies' white summer dresses.
Without knowing it, perhaps probably
believing that he is really doing the
public a service-this particular nuisance
is one OF the most offensive in the list.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
Old Maids.

The Chicago News announces authori-
tatively that girl is not an oil maid
now until she is past 30. "Once she was
an old maid at 25 In the better circles
girls do not enter society at as early an
age as they did when the tag old maid
was affixed to them if they didn't marry
by the time they were %. The lass of
16, Is, or even older, is in school occupied
with her music and other studies now,
and not receiving beaux alone in the
parlor evenings, The largely increasing
number OF independently situated women
who prefer to live unmarried is likely to
the old maid The girl who prefers the
luxuries OF her fathers home to sharing
flat or boarding house with salaried
young man is multiplying rapidly"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02

DELICATE SCALES.
Dhey will Even show the Weight . Mana
Signature Carries with IL.

In q Broadway store which IL q branch
Of big out.of-town scale factory, are
more different kinds OF scales than most
people imagine were ever made There
are sp 'cimens OF every grade OF weighing
machine, from the big track scales that
can weigh railroad car full OF pig lead
and weighing $4,000 pounds, down to a
tiny balance so fine that II is kept in q
glass case which you could carry in your
pocket. The smallest scale OF all is made
fer delicate tests in essaying. II is ad-
juste TO milligrammes Its sensiveness
is so fine that you can weigh hair or an
eyelash on 1t. You can write your name
on slip OF paper with lead pencil and
then find out just how much your sigma
ture weighs.
The weights are the merest bits Of
aluminium not half 30 big as the head Of
pin. The machine is so delicate that
little dust blowing in from the street
will affect its accuracy, and IL has to be
carefully cleaned after each exposure
II is made of aluminium, platinum and
the finest tempered steel People do not
use it as a play thing as general rule.
1t costs as much as its weight in gold.
Every once in while a sceptic comes
along who doesn't believe that story
about the scales that will weigh the hair
from mans head, and II the manager Of
the store is good d-natured and has plenty
OF time he will bring out the wonderful
little machine and operate it.
A reporter happened in the other
day while the operation was going on.
The manager took slip OF ordinary
writing paper and weighed it. 1t weighed
thirty-eight milligrammes. Then he
gave the paper to the visitor with lead
pencil I'd the visitor wrote "John Henry
Larned" on it in full free hand. Then
the manager put the slip back ON tho
scales and fixed the little weights. The
mans signature weighed five milli-
grammes
Then the man pulled hair out of his
head and the manager found that it
weighed three milligrammes. An eyelash
weighed little less than one milli-
gramme and hair from his whiskers
weighed five mlligrammes.
Then the manager showed how easy
it was to count the hairs in mans head.
At the rate Of three milligrammes to a
hair, there would be $4,000 hairs in an
ounce. The man probably had three
ounces of hair on bis head and therefore
$4,000 hairs.
--NeiO York Commercial Advertiser.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks denies
that she will publish a collection of her
husbands letters.
Marie Foster of Adams, Mass, got
thirty days imprisonment for plucking a
few flowers. Such a place. 1t ought to
grow weeds.
Sarah Bernhardt has made her tiger
cats popular. They are sure protection
against dogs and dudes and no parent
should be without one.
Mrs. Francis l. Armory has been
the toast among the married ladies of
Nahant this summer. The pretty rose.
buds have felt quite jealous.
-Signora Verdi, wife of al Trovatore,"
is very charitable woman. She is now
putting up a asplendid hospital at Busseto,
which she and Verdi will endow.
Miss Olivia Cobb of Atlanta, Ga, is
called the Southern queen OF love and
beauty. She is just out of her teens and
wears thirty scalps, or we should say
hearts in her girdle.
Boston ladies have taken to patron
izing bucket-shops, and it has been OBJ
served that their former sweet Medea
look OF attic soulfulness has left their
faces. They have turned to vulgar
Doodle.
1t has come to caramels in the turf
at last. They have been crunched this
summer. AS for chewing-gum, the very
porpoises have stood aghast while gazing
at an American maiden chewing her cud.
Queen Kapiolani finds life dull since
she returned home. What is the good,
she thinks, OF being queen unless you
can boss around lot OF lords and ladies
in waiting. She has nobody to crush but
Kap.
There has been great call at the
watering places this summer for fasting
girls. 1t has been fashionable for society
girls to have good appetites. Hotel men
find that delicate girls pay best, and it
may be so.
Mrs. General Logan has been in Chi
cago arranging for the building OF
monument which is to commemorate
her husbands patriotism. She also
looked alter the Generals book. Mrs.
Logan will reside in Washington.
-Piute maidens of Bodie Col, excel
their Boston sisters in ingenuity, if not in
classical knowledge. They use the trees
oil discarded sad lies for improvers. They
are very charming little Bodies and much
addicted to early Piutey.
| Mrs. Nancy Culpepper, OF Starkville,
Mss, is now cutting her third set Of
teeth. She is young yet, being only lob
years old on her last birthday. Babies of
seventy and theredbouts think her a very
wise person for her years.
Miss Marcia Marvin, daughter of the
late Bishop f. NJ. Marvin, has been APP
| pointed matron in the Mission School ut
Pracicaba, Brazil. There is fine field
for her shining talents in that land OF
hidden gold and mighty rivers.
Mrs. NJ. +. De Geer, an attorney-at-
law in Topeka, Kansas, was not afraid to
a dress over l00l0pcrsons on the Fourth
of July at Larned Kan, on "Our Fore
mothers The assemblage, it is unneces-
sary to say, was a Larned one.
Queen Victoria has an idea when the
royalty business gives out OF keeping
bolrding-house. She charged some ladie!
who came down to Windsor with al
eS1,010 gilt for their tea. The Queeni
talents have SO far been hidden under {
bushel.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
Garibaldvs Remains.

A remarkable controversy is being
fought out over the body of Garibaldi,
1t will be recollected that when the hero
and patriot died, his last will was found
to confirm his expressions in life in
favor OF cremation. He required his
executors to see that his body should
not be buried, but burned. The feelings
OF some OF the members OF his family,
and not few of his friends, were adverse
to such treatment OF his remains.
From that time to this, the present head
OF the family, the Deputy Menotti Carl
baldi, has been entreated again and again
by his fathers admirers to carry out the
great patriots last request. Menotti,
however, has always steadily resisted
these appeals, The whole business has
now been put into the hands OF the Mi.
Ian Cremation Society, which is about to
take legal proceedings against Menotti
Garibaldi in order to compel him to lay
aside his personal objections and comply
with the direction OF his father.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
The Garnlan 0Caan.

Discussing the Picturesque quality of
Holland George Hitchcock says in
.Scribner: The shallow, stormy German
Ocean, breaking in ceaseless beauty on
its white sands, is always picture, Its
waters often mixed with sand, always in
storms, make up in fine color what it
lacks in transparency-from pale blue
to warm red in the wave-shadows yell
lowish form, and yet withal gray and
harmonious. In high winds it breaks
miles from the shore, when all the light
in the picture seems to be in the mass OF
rushing, foaming water then if through
this comes the black hull and russet sails
OF fshing-boat, making for a place
certain death to any other model-it is
indeed a picture. The size OF these
boats makes them most useful large
enough to compose well, and yet their
feeling and pathos not lost in too great
evidence OF safety. The almost daily
going and coming of the fishers from the
few villages, the departure for the her
ring-fishiag, with the group of discon-
solate wves and sweethearts, the rise
and fall OF the tide, with ceas less change
of color AMI conformation, are never
failing source OF interest
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
Thirty Facts Worth Knowing.

The second largest state is California.
Nebraska is more than twice the size
Of Indiana.
Michigan and Florida are the same
size.
Texas is four times as large as the New
England States.
Dakota is larger than England, Scot
land and Ireland together.
The population of London, England, is
equal to that of Canada, or that of New
York State, including its cities.
Kentucky and Portugal are about the
same size.
California is nearly i've times as large
as Ireland.
The Island of Cuba and the State of
Tennessee are nearly equal in area.
Brazil is nearly as large as the United
States but the population OF the latter
is six times that of the former.
The populations of Canada, New York,
Ireland and Belgium are about the same.
If the people of Canada and of the
United States were placed in the State
OF Texas, the number OF persons to the
square mile would be fewer than at pres
ent in China.
The population OF Canada Is double
that Of Australia.
Colorado is as large as New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey together
1t would take ten states as large as
Massachusetts TO make state as large
as Kansas.
There are more people In the cities OF
New York and Brooklyn than in the
State of Massachusetts, including its
cities.
There are as many people in the City
OF Chicago as in the State OF Connecticut.
There are tweny-seven states and ter
ritories each larger than New York.
Oregon is equal in area TO New York
and Pennsylvania
Massachusetts, is smaller than either
| New Hampshire or Vermont.
Minnesota is twice the size OF Ohio.
The three states bordering on the
Pacific are larger than the thirteen States
| bordering on the Atlantic.
Montana is thirty times larger than
| Connecticut,
Dakota is four times larger than In
| diana.
Iowa is five times as large as Belgium,
and four times as large as Denmark.
| Maryland and Switzerland are about
the same size,
| Michigan is twice the size Of Scotland.
The area of the Dominion of Canada
is almost equal TO the area of the United
States, including Alaska.
Texas is as large as France, Holland
and Belgium together.
There are nearly as many people in
the City of Philadelphia as in the State
OF Kansas.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
THE LITTLE READER,
A Lesson for Parents 10 Take to Heart

How quiet the house is at midnight,
The people who talk and laugh ami sag
in it are asleep, and the people VINO lel
asleep in it long ago came back INTO II
Every house has these two cldses oi
tenants. Do we love best those with
whom we can talk and laugh an sing,
or the dear silent ones who come 50
noisalessly to our sides and whisper to rs
in faint, sweet, far-away whispers that
have no sound, so that We only hear
their very stiffness
am not tired, but my pen Is weary
1t falls from my fingers and ! rilse my
head. ] start to leave the table and my
eyes fall upon little book lying on tlr
floor. 1t is a little "First Reader" He
left il there this afternoon. ! remember
lust how | was impatient be'ause he
could not read the simple little lesson,
such an easy lesson, and told HIM II
was a was e OF my time to teach him an
pushed him away from me. rem IN . n
now. | see the flush come mo In
little tired face, the brave, cheerful looi
in his eyes, his mothers brave, patient
cheerin S. struggling with his dlsap-
pointment and pain. | see him lie do Nn
on tha floor and the little face bent over
the trouult some lesson and baby might
read it. Then, after little struggle
alone, it has to be given up, an tbs
baliled little soldier, with one more ap'
pealing look toward me for reinforce
inents, sighs and goes away from tn !, S
son he cannot read to the play that com
forts him. And there lies til littl book
Just as he left it, All, me, | could knee
down and kiss it now, as though II wer>
alive and loving.
Why, what was my time worth TO m,
to-day? What was there in the book
wanted to read one-half so precious L
me as one cooling word from the prattllnl
lips that quivered when turned away
hated the book | read. will neye
look at il again, Were it the last bool
in the world, | think ! would burn il
All its gracious words are lies, | say u
you, though all men praise the book, an,
though an hour ago thought it excel
lent, / say to you there is poison in 1t
hateful pages. Why, what can lear
from books that baby lips cannot teacl
me Do you know l want to 90 to III
door OF his room and listen the house
50 still; maybe he is not breathing
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
Masters that | cannot teach the little
lpSson moro than onpn ?



In these days, when travel by railroads
is very common, a few words on the best
means to prevent taking cold in the cars
will he useful The Medical aud Surgical
Reporter S VS.:
For the men light cap one that will
cover over the ears, so as to serve as u
night-cap, will be desirable. In cold
weather wooen cap is best. This cap
should be put on as soon as the car is en-
tered. A loose blouse should take the
place of the coat usually worn. Slip
pers must not be worn. If there be
dra1ght in the car face it; do not LIT it
strike the back. Have the bed made
with the head toward the engine; the
dust will then be driven to the foot,
where it will 10 the least harm. But be
sure to have sufficient quantity OF bed
clothes to keep warm. A soft, Ioose-knit
woolen hool is the best head wear for
women; this should be worn at night
also. 1t should be warmer in winter
than in summer months. The corsets
should be removed at night and loose
wooden wrapper worn for a night dress.
The Stocking supporters as well as every
constructing bani around the wais should
be loosened. Every adult should take
from five to ten grains of quinine Cl on
going to bed. 1t will be we'll to rub the
hands, feet, face and neck with little
vaseline at the same time.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02

The watermelon fleet is great institu-
ton on Chesapeake bay. II comprises
about 50 vessels OF various descriptions
and sizes. The season opens about the
irst week in August and for nearly two
months this most beautiful bay is filled
with these boats loaded down with
melons. The departures and arrivals
are II ostly at dawn or twilight 80 that
the daylight view OF the fleet is about
the same all the time. The boats carry
from 5000 to 5000 melons each, and give
employment to several hundred men
who feel most comfortable when dressed
in cotton shirt pat he'd trousers, on
suspender, and well-colored pipe.
Long lines OF these men toss and catch
the melons from the outer boats until
they are landed in the wagons along the
wharf The scene is always lively, and
large part OF the excitement is due to
the commission agents VINO sell the
melons along the wharf and who exact I
per centum Of all SUI 8 for their serve, 8
From Baltimore melons are shipped as
far north as Canada and as far west az
Chicago. The bulk of the shipments &c
New York and Boston.